That is weird Lisa! Let me know how she gets on? I know sometimes they spook themselves but it sounds like she was like that for a while.

In our new house the guinea pigs' room is a little cold, so I set up lots of fleece tents and drapes for them to hide inside to keep warm until the radiator is fixed (we also put an additional heater in there for them). Today Mr8 found Fujimoto sitting on top of a tent as though it was a hammock. I love that little ninja.

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the only thing i can think of is our house was chaotic this weekend. my baby shower was saturday so my in laws were staying with us all weekend and they have 2 small horribly behaved yappy dogs which didnt come upstairs because they are terrified of my dogs but they were downstairs and one of them barks non stop which agitated my dogs. so there was more barking.plus one of my dogs is a tad fearful so when people come over he's not 100% familiar with he tends to bark at them every time he sees them anew.

my in laws stress ME out too so there was just a lot of anxiety and barking in my house this weekend. the pigs are pretty well used to dog barking but this was like EVEN MORE. i think all the animals (and humans ha ha) were on edge this weekend. and she just spooked herself.

my husband went home at lunch time to check on something else and he went into the pig room and said Pelly was still in the hidey hut but when he gave them some hay she came out.also last night when i shook their bottle of vitamin C tabs as i do every night they all started shrieking and whistling at me for one and she came out then too.

she kind of reminds me of a brand new pig you just brought home. except when she was sitting out in the open. that was just so weird to me!

my monster pig used to climb on everything and i found her on top of a little hammock type thing was. it cracked me up. ninja pigs!!! i havent seen her climb in a long time though.

Sudden thunderstorm and Basko is completely freaking out. He was really antsy earlier and I couldn't figure out why. He must have been sensing the storm. I put his Thundershirt on him and I put the tv on the new agey music channel, but the thunder is SO loud. He wants to climb up in my lap, but seeing as how he's a 90 pound german shepherd, that's not really workable! Poor guy.

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Not to make fun of my poor little spooked pig but I really do think she is fine just spooked. Ive seen her out and about a bunch of times so I know she is eating and drinking and moving around but she’s still mainly hiding. I found some really small beans which means she has been hiding more than eating so I took her out and tried to tempt her with some Critical Care which is just basically a powdered emergency herbivore diet that you can force feed sick animals or animals that just had surgery. She doesn’t really fit the bill but I thought she might think it was a treat and eat some so I just had it on a spoon and gave it to her. She ate a little bit but not much (they never eat it when you WANT them to). She happily accepted some head scritches and chin rubs so I feel ok in poking fun at her……

Not to make fun of my poor little spooked pig but I really do think she is fine just spooked. Ive seen her out and about a bunch of times so I know she is eating and drinking and moving around but she’s still mainly hiding. I found some really small beans which means she has been hiding more than eating so I took her out and tried to tempt her with some Critical Care which is just basically a powdered emergency herbivore diet that you can force feed sick animals or animals that just had surgery. She doesn’t really fit the bill but I thought she might think it was a treat and eat some so I just had it on a spoon and gave it to her. She ate a little bit but not much (they never eat it when you WANT them to). She happily accepted some head scritches and chin rubs so I feel ok in poking fun at her……

Extra funny 'cause it looks like "I see dead poople".

I am taking care of my dad's and his girlfriend's dogs. He has a greyhound named Mona and she has a beagle named Mitch. Tungsten can be a jerk so far the visit has been really good (a week tomorrow) until tonight when I got to my inlaws' place after work and Tungsten decided to beat up on Mona. She told him off and he went nuts, chasing and trying to bite.

Generally Tungsten is very soft mouthed and doesn't puncture if he scraps, but damn thin greyhound skin left Mona with two punctures over her shoulder blade.

It only bled a bit and is just surface wounds but I will reassess in the morning. I just dropped $400 at the vet yesterday getting the chis their yearly exams, rabies vaccines and wellness blood work, so really don't want to go back to the vet so soon. DAMN DOGS!

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My cat is pooping on the floor. While being inside the box. She will go into her box with her front legs, mess around a bit and then get her back legs in as well. However, the butt will be sticking out through the hole (it's a covered box with a flip "door". She will stay like this while pooping, making the poop land right outside the box being super stinky and gross. She will then enter into the box completely and mess around with the litter. What do I do? I've seen boxes with entrance on the top, but so far I haven't seen one for sale in Sweden. Silly cat!

I am taking care of my dad's and his girlfriend's dogs. He has a greyhound named Mona and she has a beagle named Mitch. Tungsten can be a jerk so far the visit has been really good (a week tomorrow) until tonight when I got to my inlaws' place after work and Tungsten decided to beat up on Mona. She told him off and he went nuts, chasing and trying to bite.

Generally Tungsten is very soft mouthed and doesn't puncture if he scraps, but damn thin greyhound skin left Mona with two punctures over her shoulder blade.

this was the story of my life with the whippet and Nacho. Got worse as the whippet got older and grumpier- she would instigate fights and he would defend himself but she was the one who got hurt. hope the punctures heal up quick.

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whippet and greyhound skin always looks so damn fragile to me so im kinda not surprised to hear this!hopefully it's just surface wounds. it's always hard to tell how bad it is by how much it's bleeding. when my lab gets beat up by the hound mix he always seems to get it in the ears which of course bleed like a grisly murder scene and then you find it's just the teeniest little scrape ever.and yet when my dog was essentially mauled by another dog and had multiple deep bite wounds all over his body and spent the night at the ER I don't remember very much blood involved.

My cat is pooping on the floor. While being inside the box. She will go into her box with her front legs, mess around a bit and then get her back legs in as well. However, the butt will be sticking out through the hole (it's a covered box with a flip "door". She will stay like this while pooping, making the poop land right outside the box being super stinky and gross. She will then enter into the box completely and mess around with the litter. What do I do? I've seen boxes with entrance on the top, but so far I haven't seen one for sale in Sweden. Silly cat!

You need a bigger box!

Mona's punctures are drying and tightening up already. I'm just worried about it closing on its own because of the placement. So far so good though.

Except Tungsten ran away this morning! I didn't close the gate properly. Mr Moon called for him but Tungsten looked at him and kept running, so Mr Moon took that as a personal slight. Tungsten is home now but hubby gets all worked up saying things like "if he doesn't care about me why should I care about him?!"

It's not that he doesn't love you! It's that he's a jerk and wanted to keep running and peeing on things!

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Our bath tub is raised a bit from the floor, and every time we've taken a shower, Lucia the cat will sneak into the bathroom and crawl in under the tub, after inspecting the small puddles of water underneath it. We discovered this after finding her with a wet belly a lot of times. Silly!

Is there any non-ugly cat furniture that exists that isn't a thousand dollars!? I want to get something for the cats, but all the nice minimalist pieces are seriously like $1000. I want something that isn't a pile-carpet monstrosity.

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